Scando Lappid Phenotype - Face Features & Origin

Average Face

Averaging the portraits behind Scando Lappid leaves the features that repeat and erases the ones that do not. That is exactly how the Scando Lappid composite below was built: individual photographs were aligned and statistically merged, exaggerating shared structure into a single reference face that no actual person looks like.

Composite source: Human Phenotypes — Scando Lappid

Geographic Distribution

Geographically, Scando Lappid anchors to 59.3° N, 18.1° E (Northern Europe). That is the point where historical anthropologists judged Scando Lappid most concentrated, not a hard edge; modern migration and intermarriage have long since softened whatever boundaries once existed.

Physical Characteristics

Light greyish brown skin, straight, usually dark brown, sometimes blonde or red hair, and brown eyes that are sporadically slanted.

• Short, macroskelic, endomorph
• Hyperbrachycephalic, mildly hypsicranic
• Mesorrhine, often concave nose
• Face is relatively low and very wide, the cheekbones are broad
• Body hair is rather weak
• Jaw is delicate and square, small pointed chin
• Body hair rather weak

Historical Background

Lappid proper - an ancient European type associated with Southern Saami people (formerly "Lapps"). Rare today, often mixed, typical in Northern Sweden and North-Central Norway. More widespread in historic times: around 1700 still common in the proximity of Oslo. Influences are found across Finland, Karelia, Baltic countries, traces possibly even in Carpathians, French (Breton variety), and Basques.

Research History & Naming

Typological names were coined, contested, and renamed repeatedly across the 20th century, and Scando Lappid is no exception. The extract below records the researchers who defined Scando Lappid, the alternative labels it accumulated, and where the modern consensus settled.

The type was defined by Lundman ( 1940 , 1943 , 1967 ) as Skando-/South Lappid or Varid ("vare", Saami = mountain). Early studies by Düben (1873) and Mantegazza and Sommier (1880) . Eickstedt (1934) regarded it as a Proto Alpinid. Later authors added it as a distinct type to their system ( Biasutti, 1967 ; Knussmann, 1996 ).

Comparison With Nearby Phenotypes

Geography, not alphabet, ordered this table: the five phenotype centers closest to Scando Lappid's, with the traits most likely to be mistaken for it (Dalofaelid leads at 288 km). In gameplay, these five account for most of the wrong-but-nearby pins against Scando Lappid.

Scando Lappid in the Game

In gameplay terms, Scando Lappid rewards region-level recall: the score is computed from the distance between your pin and 59.3° N, 18.1° E. Players often confuse Scando Lappid with Dalofaelid (288 km out) in the comparison table above — those confusions are exactly what the distance penalty is designed to expose.

Scando Lappid Phenotype FAQ

Where does the Scando Lappid phenotype come from?

Historical sources center the Scando Lappid phenotype on 59.3° N, 18.1° E (Northern Europe). Treat that as a rough anchor: the type appeared across a wider surrounding area — its nearest documented neighbors, Dalofaelid and Savolaxid, sit 288 and 396 km from the reference point — and its present-day distribution no longer matches the historical map.

What does the Scando Lappid phenotype look like?

The composite emphasizes recurring traits: light greyish brown skin, straight, usually dark brown, sometimes blonde or red hair, and brown eyes that are sporadically slanted. The full trait list for Scando Lappid appears in the physical characteristics section above.

Is the Scando Lappid phenotype a race or a nationality?

No — and the Scando Lappid naming history above shows why. Scando Lappid was defined, renamed, and regrouped repeatedly by different researchers, which is the opposite of how a fixed racial category would behave. A phenotype is a recurring bundle of visible traits recorded across a population; the Scando Lappid label says nothing about where any individual's ancestors were born.

How does Scando Lappid appear in the game?

When the Scando Lappid face comes up in Classic Daily or Challenge Mode, you pin the world map where you believe the type is historically most common, and the score decays with your distance to 59.3° N, 18.1° E. Fair warning: the nearest other entry in our dataset, Dalofaelid, sits just 288 km away, so this face rewards precise placement — the right country alone is not always enough.

References & Literature

Every claim on this page traces back to the sources below — the researchers who defined, measured, and argued over the Scando Lappid type. The originals behind the Scando Lappid entry are worth consulting directly.

• Lundman, B. 1940. Nordens rastyper : geografi och historia. Albert Bonnier. Stockholm.
• Lundman, B. 1943. Jordens Människoraser och Folkstammar. Nybloms Förlag, Uppsala.
• Lundman, B. 1967. Geographische Anthropologie. Rassen und Völker der Erde. G. Fischer, Stuttgart
• Düben, G. 1873. Om Lappland och Lapparne. Stockholm.
• Mantegazza, P. and St. Sommier 1880. Studi anthropologici sui Lapponi. Firenze.
• Eickstedt, E. von. 1934. Rassenkunde und Rassengeschichte der Menschheit. Ferdinand Enke. Stuttgart.
• Biasutti, R. 1967 (1941). Le Razze e i Popoli della terra. 4th Ed. Vol 1-4. U.T.E.T., Torino.
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Related Phenotypes

More entries from the same region of the historical map as Scando Lappid, each with its own composite and trait profile.

• Dalofaelid

  Northern Europe · 288 km away

  Coarse, Cromagniform Nordid variety of Central and Northern Europe. Named after the Swedish province of Dalarna and the German region of Wes...

• Savolaxid

  Northern Europe · 396 km away

  East Baltid variety, named after the Savolaxia province of Finland, similar to Neo Danubian. Core population in Eastern Finland, Karelia, an...

• Aisto Nordid

  Northern Europe · 418 km away

  East Nordid subvariety, common in coastal regions of Baltic countries. One of the last strongholds of East Nordids that are only a minority ...

• Proto Nordid

  Northern Europe · 470 km away

  Ancient East Nordid variety, the eastern counterpart of the Aisto Nordids. Together with early Mediterranids it was widespread in prehistori...

• Fenno Nordid

  Northern Europe · 602 km away

  Ancient type of Northeastern Europe, sometimes placed in Nordid, sometimes East Baltid. Associated with Finno-Ugric people, once widespread ...

Further Reading

Background articles from the blog that explain where the Scando Lappid type fits, how these composites are built, and what a face can and cannot tell you.

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